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There's currently no technological path for fusion to be cheaper than fission. It would require a technological breakthrough that we have not yet imagined.

And already, solar plus storage is cheaper than new nuclear. And solar and storage are getting cheaper at a tremendous rate.

It's hard to imagine a scenario where fusion could ever catch up to solar and storage technology. It may be useful in places with poor solar resources, like fission is now, but that's a very very long time from now.

parent epistasis 1 year ago

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